* 1890 – Sitting Bull, American Indian tribal chief ( b. c. 1831 )

The first piece was published on December 20, 1890, five days after the killing of the Lakota Sioux holy man, Sitting Bull ( who was being held in custody at the time ).

Sitting Bull, most renowned Sioux of modern history, is dead .</ br >< p > He was not a Chief, but without Kingly lineage he arose from a lowly position to the greatest Medicine Man of his time, by virtue of his shrewdness and daring .</ br >< p > He was an Indian with a white man's spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his.

What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies .</ br >< p > The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull.

The people featured as cards in the set are: René Descartes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Mary Wollstonecraft, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Sojourner Truth, Karl Marx, Sitting Bull, Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Bertrand Russell, Michel Foucault, and Avram Noam Chomsky.

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.

* July 20 – American Indian Wars: Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana.

* Spring – Vast numbers of Indians move north to an encampment of the Sioux chief Sitting Bull in the region of the Little Bighorn River, creating the last great gathering of native peoples on the Great Plains.

* June 25 – American Indian Wars – Battle of the Little Bighorn: 300 men of the U. S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer are wiped out by 5, 000 Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States ( the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year ).

* May 5 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.

** 20 July 1881 — Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his fugitive people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana.

" After George Armstrong Custer's defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sherman wrote that " hostile savages like Sitting Bull and his band of outlaw Sioux ... must feel the superior power of the Government.

Thereafter bands of Lakota Sioux led by Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and others, along with their Northern Cheyenne allies, hunted and raided throughout the length and breadth of eastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming, which had been for a time ancestral Crow territory.

Notable persons include Tataŋka Iyotake ( Sitting Bull ) from the Hunkpapa band ; Touch the Clouds from the Miniconjou band ; and, Tašuŋke Witko ( Crazy Horse ), Maȟpiya Luta ( Red Cloud ), Heȟaka Sapa ( Black Elk ), Siŋte Gleška ( Spotted Tail ), and Billy Mills from the Oglala band.

Fourteen years later, Sitting Bull was killed at Standing Rock reservation on December 15, 1890.

* Sitting Bull ( Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake ), Hunkpapa chief

It was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, led by several major war leaders, including Crazy Horse and Gall, inspired by the visions of Sitting Bull ( Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake ).

In 1875, Sitting Bull created the Sun Dance alliance between the Lakota and the Cheyenne, a religious ceremony which celebrates the spiritual rebirth of participants.

During the event, Sitting Bull reportedly had a vision of " soldiers falling into his camp like grasshoppers from the sky.

Meanwhile, in the spring and summer of 1876, the Hunkpapa Lakota holy man Sitting Bull had called together the largest ever gathering of Plains Indians at Ash Creek, Montana ( later moved to the Little Bighorn River ) to discuss what to do about the whites.

He became a close friend of Sitting Bull, and participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the defeat of George Armstrong Custer.

* Sitting Bull

Fort Yates also served as the headquarters of the US Standing Rock Indian Agency, headed by US Indian Service Agent James McLaughlin who ordered the arrest of Sitting Bull on 14 December 1890.

The 19th-century American Indian leader Sitting Bull was once buried at Fort Yates, but reports indicate that his body was possibly removed and transferred to a gravesite overlooking the Missouri River near Mobridge, South Dakota.

On his gravestone is written: " May your spirit live, May you spend millions of years, You who love Thebes, Sitting with your face to the north wind, Your eyes beholding happiness " and " O night, spread thy wings over me as the imperishable stars ".

Nude Sitting on a Divan is one of a series of nudes painted by Modigliani in 1917 that created a sensation when exhibited in Paris that year.

Sitting near the Durand Line border with Afghanistan and close to Kandahar province, Quetta is a trade and communications center between the two countries as well as an important military location which occupies a strategic position for the Pakistani Armed Forces.

Sitting at an elevation of 1, 716 feet above sea level, Lynch is Kentucky's highest incorporated city.

The town name is supposed to have originated from an Indian named Sitting Duck, who lived on top of the big hill just as one enters the town coming from Grenada.

Sitting Bull College is in the city of Fort Yates.

" At the line " Sitting in an English garden " the D # melody note ( as in the instrumental introduction ) establishes a Lydian mode ( sharp 4th note in the scale ) and this mode is emphasised more strongly with the addition of a D # note to the B chord on " If the sun don't come.

Sitting strategies might be necessary, and it is therefore important to play the defense fast.

Dio provided vocals for the songs " Homeward ", " Sitting in a Dream " and the UK single " Love is All ".

Sitting on the banks of the Mississippi River, La Crescent, Minnesota is surrounded by beautiful bluffs with spectacular views of the river.

In September, Sitting Bull and about 100 Hunkpapa Sioux came across a small party near what is now Marmarth, North Dakota.

* Sitting Bull is featured as the leader for the Native American Civilization in the computer game Civilization IV.

Sitting Pretty is a 1948 American comedy film which tells the story of a family who hires a man with a mysterious past to babysit their children.

Sitting is a rest position supported by the buttocks or thighs where the torso is more or less upright.

Sitting in seiza is kneeling on one's own lower legs, with the feet under the buttocks, toes pointed backwards.

Cliff is best known among mainstream audiences for songs such as " The Harder They Come ," " Sitting in Limbo ", " You Can Get It If You Really Want " and " Many Rivers to Cross " from the soundtrack to The Harder They Come, which helped popularize reggae across the world ; and his covers of Cat Stevens ' " Wild World " and Johnny Nash's " I Can See Clearly Now " from the film Cool Runnings.

In a surprising ending, where Richard refuses to be captured and leaps down to his death with the " wrong " closing line " Let us to't pell-mell ; if not to heaven, then hand-in-hand to hell ", his falling into the inferno is followed by the eerily upbeat tune " I'm Sitting On The Top Of The World " ( Ray Henderson, Joe Young and Sam Lewis ) in the classic version sung by Al Jolson.

Sitting on Chicago Park District land, the Point is popular with hikers, bikers, joggers, runners, sunbathers, picnickers, cross-country skiers, and adventurous swimmers.

One of Lucier's most important and best-known works is I Am Sitting in a Room ( 1969 ), in which Lucier records himself narrating a text, and then plays the recording back into the room, re-recording it.

Sitting down was particularly significant as the student section generally stands on the bleachers while the team is playing ( in contrast to the rest of the stadium, which sits while the team plays and stands during halftime ).

The Sanskrit word for worship is “ Upaasana ” – ‘ Upa ’ ( Near ) ‘ Aasana ’ ( Sitting )-Upaasana means sitting near the Lord.